I.B.M. Accused of Denying Overtime Pay to Workers
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So this may not be hardware related per se. Still, you had better believe it was hard on those involved though…
A lawsuit was filed in federal court Tuesday accusing I.B.M. of denying overtime pay to tens of thousands of workers.
The suit, which seeks class-action status nationwide, contends that the company violated federal and state labor laws in California and New York by misclassifying full-time computer installation and maintenance workers as exempt from overtime.
“We believe that those tens of thousands of workers have worked tens of thousands, perhaps millions, of unpaid overtime hours,” James M. Finberg, a lawyer at Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, said at a news conference in San Francisco, where the suit was filed. [Read the rest]